????穆里爾?西伯特被尊為“華爾街第一夫人”的時(shí)間幾乎已經(jīng)跨越了兩代人。她是第一位在紐約證券交易所（New York Stock Exchange）獲得交易席位的女性，為此她在1967年拿出了近50萬(wàn)美元【314.25萬(wàn)元人民幣，她說(shuō)其中大部分是大通曼哈頓銀行（Chase Manhattan）提供的貸款，由大衛(wèi)?洛克菲勒（前摩根大通主席）親自批準(zhǔn)】。

????當(dāng)時(shí)，紐交所另外1,365個(gè)交易席位上坐的都是男性。蒙大拿州一份報(bào)紙打出了這樣的標(biāo)題：《裙子入侵交易所》（SKIRT INVADES EXCHANGE）。一位男性證券分析師對(duì)巴爾的摩的記者調(diào)侃說(shuō)：“女性把這么多的時(shí)間都花在設(shè)法控制自己的丈夫上，因此她們”在“挑選理想投資對(duì)象方面有著天然優(yōu)勢(shì)”。《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》（New York Times）則在頭版引述了未透露姓名的朋友們對(duì)西伯特的描述：“活潑、熱情、年近四十”。

????這樣空洞的新聞報(bào)道并沒(méi)有妨礙西伯特在職業(yè)聲譽(yù)和經(jīng)濟(jì)兩方面都取得成功。從那時(shí)起，無(wú)論她的事業(yè)處于頂峰還是陷入低谷，無(wú)論她創(chuàng)業(yè)冒險(xiǎn)還是投身慈善，無(wú)論她為公眾服務(wù)還是迎接個(gè)人挑戰(zhàn)，人們一直把西伯特視為一名斗士。一些女性以西伯特為楷模；而其他人，無(wú)論男女，則都把她視為金融界一位有預(yù)見(jiàn)性而又豐富多彩的人物。西伯特了解手中的股票，也知道如何去看財(cái)務(wù)報(bào)表，但她特別喜歡向別人炫耀的是她學(xué)會(huì)了用粗口來(lái)對(duì)付別的交易員，而且這項(xiàng)本領(lǐng)至今未忘。

????西伯特在克利夫蘭出生并成長(zhǎng)。1954年，23歲的西伯特開(kāi)著她的舊斯蒂旁克（Studebaker）轎車(chē)來(lái)到東海岸。她沒(méi)有大學(xué)文憑，只有口袋里的500美元和在華爾街立足的夢(mèng)想。西伯特十幾歲時(shí)和家人到過(guò)紐交所，從挑臺(tái)向下看時(shí)，她立刻就被吸引住了——這可能就像當(dāng)時(shí)的男孩子第一次從看臺(tái)上俯視揚(yáng)基棒球隊(duì)的球場(chǎng)。由于沒(méi)有完成大學(xué)學(xué)業(yè)，美林（Merrill Lynch）沒(méi)有接納西伯特。再找工作時(shí)她撒了個(gè)謊，說(shuō)自己有學(xué)位。這讓她得以開(kāi)始自己的職業(yè)生涯。她的第一份工作是在證券經(jīng)紀(jì)公司Bache & Co.研究部門(mén)當(dāng)實(shí)習(xí)生，周薪65美元，并最終將研究范圍定為航空航天業(yè)。隨后，她成為另外兩家證券公司——Finkle & Co.以及Brimberg & Co.的合伙人。從1977年起，西伯特在紐約州銀行督察的位置上工作了五年，作為第一位女性銀行督察，她把這個(gè)職位稱(chēng)為“S.O.B.”。西伯特一直自詡為富有同情心的共和黨自由派，而任命她擔(dān)任銀行督察的則是時(shí)任州長(zhǎng)的民主黨人休?凱里。1982年西伯特還參加了共和黨的紐約州參議員初選，但以失敗告終。

????Muriel "Mickie" Siebert has been known as the "First Lady of Wall Street" for almost two generations. She was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, paying nearly half a million dollars in 1967 for the privilege. (She says she borrowed the majority of it, from Chase Manhattan, after David Rockefeller personally approved the loan.)

????At the time, there were 1,365 other members, all men. SKIRT INVADES EXCHANGE, proclaimed a headline in a Montana newspaper. One male securities analyst explained to a Baltimore journalist that "women spend an awful lot of time trying to manage their husbands, so they have a natural advantage" in "picking good investments." On its front page, the New York Times, quoting unnamed friends of hers, described Siebert as "bubbly and ebullient and fortyish."

????Despite such inane commentary in the press, she thrived, both in terms of professional reputation and financial success. Ever since -- through business peaks and valleys, entrepreneurial adventures and philanthropic efforts, public service and personal challenges -- Siebert has been seen as a crusader. Some women have considered her a role model; others, irrespective of gender, have simply viewed her a prescient and colorful character of the financial world. She knows her stocks and she knows how to read a financial statement, but she especially likes to boast that she learned to use four-letter words when dealing with traders -- and has never lost the knack.

????Born and raised in Cleveland, the 23-year-old Siebert came East in 1954 in her old Studebaker, with no college degree, $500 in her pocket, and only the dream of a life on the Street. As a teenager, she had visited the NYSE (NYX) with her family and, looking down from the balcony from the Exchange, she was instantly taken—perhaps not unlike a boy of the time who first cast eyes down upon Yankee Stadium from the bleachers. After being turned down by Merrill Lynch because she hadn't graduated from college, she fibbed that she had a degree. Thus she was able to launch her career as a $65-a-week trainee in the research department at the brokerage firm Bache & Co., eventually specializing in the airlines and aerospace industries. Later on, she became a partner two other securities firms, Finkle & Co. and Brimberg & Co. For five years, beginning in 1977, she served as superintendent of banking for New York State -- the first woman to hold the job, which she calls "S.O.B."; a lifelong self-described bleeding-heart Republican," she was appointed by a Democrat, then Gov. Hugh Carey. She also had a failed run in a G.O.P. primary in New York State for the U.S. Senate in 1982.